Photographs from a collection of motion picture, theater and other performers and performances. It includes identified and unidentified actors, musical groups, dramatists, plays, movie stills and other photographic theater memorabilia.

Mrs. W. R. Blake was an actress and the widow of William Rufus Blake, a stage comedian. She was descended from a long line of performers that went back to Drury Lane in London.J. W. Wallack, Jr. (1818-1873) was a performer and producer who appeared in original plays such as Oliver Twist (1860) and The Bells (1872). He was the son-in-law of Mrs. Blake.Mrs. J. W. Wallack (Anna Duff Waring) was the daughter of Mrs. Blake from her first marriage and the wife of James W. Wallack, Jr.